Will Maupin's weekly. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1911-1912, May 10, 1912, Image 3
A GOOD WATER POWER. One of the lesser water power projects now under way in Ne braska is that owned by Bob Williams of Edgar. He has a right on the Little Blue that develops sufficient power to supply Edgar, Fairfield and Clay Center with all the electrical energy they need for lighting and power, in addition, to having enough for his own big flouring mill. Mr. Williams is now figuring on enlarging his powe rplant, increasing its energy and reaching out to larger fields This isn't any Loup river project by many thousand horsepower, but it is one of a hundred opportunities offered for generating power by harnessing Nebraska streams. Nebraska needs a whole lot more men like Bob Williams, willing to invest their money in public utility enterprises and always ready to get behind any good public . proposition and push. FOLDEN CEMENT BLOCK MACHINE. F. H. Folden of Lincoln is the inventor of a cement brick machine that bids fair to revolutionize the cement block industry. He worked at it more than a year, then took it to the Thorp Machine Co. to have a model machine made. After many experiments and the making of many models, Mr. Thorp introduced some ideas of his own into the model and the result is a wonderful machine. It makes two blocks at one operation, either wire or cement connection, or will make four slabs 40x8x16 for two-piece or cellar walls. The brick machine makes twelve bricks at one operation. It makes plain or ornamental bricks of uniform size, and has no loose plates or cast ings to handle. It will make as many face brick as plain, the only thing required being a change ,of plate. After perfecting the machine came the work of introducing it. This the inventor did by taking the road himself. It met with instant favor and toda the Thorp Co., manufacturers, is doing a big business with it and preparing to increase the capacity of the plant. The Thorp Machine Co., located at 1028 M street, is prepared to do all kinds of machine repairing, model making, die making, stencilling, etc. Novelty work in metals is a specialty with this company, and it has built up an immense busness in all its lines. THE RISKS SMOKERS RUN. The editor of Will Maupin's Weekly is neither an alarmist nor an extremist, but having had some experience in social work he knows a few things about manufacturing conditions. That is one reason why he, a confirmed smoker, will not smoke cigars unless h knows where and how they are made. He has seen too many cigars sold under high-sounding titles from a beautifully ornamented box that were made in filthy tenements by scrofuliti, syphillitic and consumptive men and women. He has seen cigars that are sold all over the country. Prison investigators and settlement workers will tell you of the great risks smokers run in buying cigars without knowing the conditions under which they are made. But the smoker in Lincoln or Nebraska who smokes a cigar made by P. Wohlenberg of Lincoln may feel assured that he runs no such risk. The Wohlen berg cigars are made under sanitary conditions by skilled workers who labor under rules that specifically forbid "mouthing" the ti;s of the cigars. They are healthy, well paid workers who delight in their skill and are proud of their trade. The Wohlenberg factory turns out superior brands of cigars, made from the finest tobaccos obtainable. It employs skilled workmen who spend their money right here in Lincoln. It is an institution that, because of the excellence of its product and the fact that it is a local business, deserves the hearty support of the smokers of the city and state. The cigars that are made in Lincoln are good enough for any Lincoln smoker. And this is especially true of the Wohlenberg product. ness, he protects public health, and thereby renders the public the greatest possible service. The public market, the place where foodstuffs are sold, should be scrupulously clean. The meat market or the grocery infested with flies should be shunned as a plague. The fruit stand offering wares that are exposed to the flying filth of a busy city's streets should be passed by with scorn and contumely. The dealer in food stuffs who objects to obeying the orders of the health office should be pilloried by public opinion. And there are such places in Lin coln places that are a menace to public health. It is not the duty of Will Maupin's Weekly to point out the places that should be avoided, neither is it its pleasure. This newspaper prefers to point out the market places that should be patronized because of their cleanliness, the general excellence of their wares, the efforts of the proprietors to co-operate with all plans having for an object the protection of the public. It hasn't a single rock in stock to throw at anybody, but it always has a verbal hothouse full of bouquets to bestow upon those who are trying to help build up the good and pull down the bad. During the last week or ten days Will Maupin's Weekly has been conducting a quiet investigation of the scores of market places where food stuffs are for sale, and in the next issue it will try to describe many of those that are worthy of confidence and of patronage because of their cleanliness, their excellence and their efforts to serve the public well. THE HARRISON PLANING MILLS. One of the big industrial plants of Lincoln is the Harrison Planing Mill, 1002 North Twenty-sixth street, managed by John Harrison. It is the great "store fitting" house of the west, and manufactures everything in the line of mill work. The product of this establishment is to be seen in a number of finely equipped public places. The handsome fixtures in the newly furnished Sartor Jewelry Co. store, those in Fulk's new clothing establishment, the Riggs Pharmacy at University Place and the newly opened Biggs Pharmacy at Sixteenth and O, are all the product of the Harrison Planing Mill Co. This mill also installed the fixtures in the hand some new Beede hospital at David City. All this work is an evi dence of the -artistic and careful construction and good material that must go into every bit of work turned out by this institution. Bank fixtures, show cases, counters, stairs, veneered work anything in this line is done by the Harrison Planing Mill Co., and is .not excelled by an institution of its kind. The mill eives steadv em ployment to a large force of skilled mechanics, and in season in creases tne force. This firm's patent wall shelving is giving good satisfaction and they make it in all sizes, and in any' kind of lumber, finished any shade required. Any carpenter can set it up. It is one of the city's institutions that looms large in the list of industrial establishments. Auto 3591, Bell A-1927. THEIR DESCENDENTS DID. The "Houn' Dawg" song was sung by the "vikings in the year 1200, but we are not informed whether they voted for Champ Clark. Plattsmouth Daily JournaL INSURING THE PUBLIC HEALTH. Health Officer Spealman, backed by the council committee on public health, is doing a splendid service in behalf of the people. His is not an easy job. On the contrary, like all public positions worth anything to the public, it is difficult to administer, provoca tive of intense prejudices and always misunderstood by the majority. But when Health Officer Spealman makes an unclean market clean, compels a filthy bakery or milk depot' to become sanitary, or forces a careless and selfish grocer to have some consideration for cleanli- A Great May Clearing o! Tailored Suits at HALF All Women's and Misses Spring Suits in our stock must be sold at once, we must have the space they occupy. Summer goods are arriving All materials and colors included. Sizes 14, 16 and 18, women's sizes 34 to 46. A Rare Opportunity. : : in i i . , i Have You Soon Our Lino off Dining Tables? jF A wide range of styles and prices to choose from. CJF Styles and prices to suit every require ment and every pocketbook, but especially do we excel in the plain substantial models in oak. To prove our assertion let us show you a 42 inch round top table with massive pedestal extending when opened to six feet, finished in either the Polish, Wax, or Early English. This table is made of carefully selected oak and priced at $9.75. 1F Our entire line of home furnishings is selected with same degree of care as our dining tables. See Our Furnished Bungalow 1112. (Q) Street m ... IftllSine&S Bright and Pretty rr Colors Worn Or C5SS by the Women By JOHN W. V. BALLARD THE difference between man's . and woman's attire in color it largely attributable to the difference in temperament and taste. Men's dress is grave because they dress in accordance with the requirement of their business, and their clothes for full dress and half dress are quiet, principally that the contrast; with that of women . should be more apparent. From time immemorial woman has been garbed in gayer dress than that of man. This is opposite to the nature of the sexes in the bird king dom, for the male bird's plumage is more brilliant than that of his mate. Then why does woman dress more gaily? It is her nature. It is he desire to dress becomingly. It is her wish to dress in a manner mora pleasing to her husband, her lover, her friend. It is also a fact that a few of the fair sex who seem to nave little desire to please the eye of man will study attractive dress and bright attira The adage, "Beauty unadorned is adorned the most," seems a contradic tion of ideas, but the most beautiful women of the world desire to dress. in richest colors and best quality of fabric.' Imagine at a grand ball a lady entering the assemblage in the sombre solors employed by the male sex, Buch an effect would seem ridiculaus. A desirable effect is not always produced in gaudy colors alone, but must be combined with materials of exquisite texture. A new and lovely gown often is conducive to the promotion of a cheerful temperament and in practical way a fresh and pretty frock has suggested an aid to convales cence after a protracted illness. A great variety of costumes is necessary to the fair sex to meet the requirements of the many festal and other occasions of the present day. The church, the theater, dinner, dance, motoring, and sports in general, all require special castuming. We have been asked by one of our large papers to design a suitable and becoming costume for young ladies' baseball college clubs in the brilliant colors of their respective colleges. r We are unwilling to acquiesce in the report that the society ladies of our city dress in extremely subdued fashion, for they certainly manifest) exceptionally refined taste in the adoption of rich colors and superior fab ricfl. So it seems to us that bright and beautiful colors are rightfully employed by the fair sex on nea every occasion. right s Working Our Own Salvation By L. H. O'CONNOR . And now comes a great writer who say that we are too stingy, that we should spend more money, eat better food, wea ' I better clothes, pay our mends car fare. aia I Thuf anMi a mnraA ia mnnov moll rnvMfad ' Henry Ward Beecher is reported to have' said that a dollar a day was enough for a laboring man. ' Ingersoll advised young men if they had but a dollar to "spend it like a god." Every banker will tell us thai if we have a dollar we should deposit it with him, and he will make us rich. I wonder if it has ever occurred to thesa people that the majority of men do with their money as necessity requires. There is not much choice for many of us. Philosophy, economics and frugality are all right in their places, but there is no fixed rule by which, a dog can be made to wag his tail. He is governed by the occasion, whether if s a fight or a frolic I have many times been in the wheat pit on the Chicago board of trade, where 1,000 men were yelling, clawing each other like wild beasts, when from the edge of the pit a well known character noted for his keen, shrill voice would cry aloud: "This is a gay life." Laughter and ridicule sometimes has a quieting effect. Life, if not "gay," is certainly susceptible of numerous variations. We each have our own individuality. Each is himself alone. He can be no one else. No general rule of conduct applicable alike to all can ever be successfully carried out. When Adam and Eve passed out of Eden beneath the flaming sword they were apprised that the world was all before them. Since then man in his wanderings has made many discoveries, many secrets of nature he has unlocked, but the greatest of them all remains a mystery, that is, man himself. God does not intend that his kingdom shall be filled with counterfeit presentments. We must work out our own salvation, crystal lize, harmonize and purify and do it alone. "Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; the proper study ol mankind is man." Problem of Saving Personal Letters By E. P. MELLINGER The line of distinction between letters of business and letters of friendship has become more and more sharply drawnJ Broadly speaking, the abrupt business com munication of today is not a letter at alL Vll l a time. After what is deemed a sufficient period, such letters are destroyed. But the old, old problem of what to do with personal letters still is as perplexing as ever. A private letter from a friend is! a bit of that particular friend himself. Noti cold paper and ink are inclosed in the en-i velope, but aspirations, fears, opinions, love. Here, then, arises the dilemma: shall the recipient destroy such a letter,. or shall he stow it away, thereby giving himself a chance to reread it, but also rendering it possible that other eyes than those for which itl was intended may read it? One type of person solves the question by throwing everything away. As he himself avers, he thus cuts himself loose from the riddle. Unfortu nately, at the same time he cuts himself loose from a host of ties by which he may bind himself to the past. He surrenders one of the most precious privileges of letter exchanging. The solution by throwing everything away is really no solution at all. That is merely to adopt the method of one who avoids a sprained ankle by never taking a step, or who avoids trashy novels by not reading at all. Over against him stands the person who never destroys any personal letters. He goes on classifying and preserving, preserving and classifying until, instead of merely filling odd corners here and there, he fills whole boxes, drawers and trunks. By traditional custom letters find their way) to the attic. They do not always largely because people cannot afford! room for attics nowadays but they end by filling an unconscionable) amount of space somewhere.